September 2021

Commercial UAV Expo Americas

7-9, September Las Vegas USA

www.expouav.com

ION GNSS+ 2021

20-224 September St. Louis, Missouri, USA

www.ion.org/gnss/index.cfm

INTERGEO 2021 Live+Digital

21 – 23 September Hannover, Germany

https://www.intergeo.de

Mapping The Future Of Land Administration & CSDILA’s 20 Years Celebration Event

20-23 September, 2021 Melbourne, Australia

https://www.csdila20-fig.org

November 2021

Digital Construction Week

24-25, November London, UK

www.digitalconstructionweek.com

Navigation 2021

15-18 November

https://rin.org.uk

GEO Business

24-25 November London, UK

www.geobusinessshow.com

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In this year itself, there have been many worrying events of extreme weathers.
In Greenland, for the first time rain fell at the highest point of its ice sheet.
If there are extreme level of flooding in Germany, China and Australia,
Then the Western US is facing one of the worst droughts.
Unprecedented heat waves …

UAV LiDAR to inform carbon emission reduction policy making
A specialist team at the University of Wiconscin-Madison (UW-Madison) used the Routescene UAV LiDAR system to detect and visualize forests in Northern Wisconsin, USA as part of the CHEESEHEAD project. The objective of this wider project is to improve weather forecasting by understanding further how vegetation and …

Ultra-wideband micro-location technology gains traction
From AR games to automatic car locks, pinpointing the location of devices is becoming increasingly important in modern life. The difference being that the precision we demand is far beyond the reach of GPS or Bluetooth. With Ultra-Wideband (UWB) microlocation technology from imec, the location of objects in a space can …

Oceaneering and DDK Positioning sign service agreement
Oceaneering International, Inc., and DDK Positioning Limited have entered into an agreement for the provision of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) augmentation service and all associated software and hardware supporting Oceaneering’s C-Nav Positioning Solutions group offerings.
DDK Positioning’s services are delivered exclusively through the Iridium satellite communications network coupled with …

Exploring the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA is funding a team of Rochester Institute of Technology imaging scientists to study the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems. Led by principal investigator John Kerekes, a professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, the team received a …

Galileo Second Generation proof-of-concept testing begins
The first Galileo Second Generation hardware has begun testing, with test versions of the satellites’ navigation payloads undergoing evaluation by Airbus Defence and Space at their Ottobrunn facility in Germany and by Thales Alenia Space at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
These testbed versions of these new navigation payloads …

West Bengal, India begins GIS survey for MSMEs
The state of West Bengal in India, which has the second most number of MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) in the country, has initiated a GIS survey of the existing 570 MSME clusters, viewing them as a key component of the state’s economy.
The outcome of the survey …

The draft “Indian Satellite Navigation Policy-2021 (SATNAV Policy-2021)” is hosted in website for public consultation. Comments on the draft policy, if any, shall be forwarded to this Department to the email id : dir.proj ects@isro.gov.in at the earliest, but not later than 29.08.2021. Here are the excerpts of the policy

Department of Space being the administrative …

As the world continuous to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper provides an introduction to the use of humour in the scientific literature and highlights several examples

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the first in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird and wonderful …